AGU CHAPMAN CONFERENCE

"The North Atlantic Oscillation"

November, 28- December 1, 2000

University of Vigo (Orense campus), Orense, Galicia, Spain

James Hurrell, Yochanan Kushnir and Martin Visbeck, Conveners

Organising Committee:
C. Appenzeller, M. Baldwin, T. Delworth, C. Deser, K. Drinkwater, H. Graf, P. Lamb, J. Marshall, M. McCartney, L. Polvani, D.B. Stephenson and R. Sutton  

Program:

Abbreviated Program:

Tuesday, November 28: a.m.

Atmospheric Processes

Tuesday, November 28: p.m.

Global Climate Change and the NAO

Wednesday, November 29: a.m.

Ocean, Land, Sea-Ice Response to the NAO

Wednesday, November 29: p.m.

Coupled Ocean-Land-Seaice-Atmosphere Processes

Thursday, November 30: a.m.

Impacts of the NAO

Thursday, November 30: p.m.

Indices (Instrumental and Proxy)

Friday, December 1: a.m.

Predictability


The detailed program is here. List of all submitted abstracts is here


SPONORS:

Significant funding for this conference was obtained from the:

National Science Foundation (ATM and OCE) and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (OGP)











More Information about the findings of the meeting:

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Results from the Chapman Conference Survey

How would you rate this Chapman Conference compared to other specialty conferences you have attended?






1

0.98

%

One of the poorest


13

12.75

%

Middle of the pack


76

74.51

%

One of the best


12

11.76

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Best






How would you rate this Chapman Conference compared to any other conferences you have attended this year?






1

0.97

%

One of the poorest


14

13.59

%

Middle of the pack


18

17.48

%

Second best


70

67.96

%

Best of the year






The Organization of this Conference was






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0

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Poor


1

0.94

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Fair


24

22.64

%

Adequate


52

49.06

%

Very Good


29

27.36

%

Excellent






Size of the Conference was






20

18.52

%

Too large


4

3.7

%

Not large enough


84

77.78

%

About right






Number of presentations was






9

8.33

%

Too many


13

12.04

%

Too few


86

79.63

%

About right






Length of oral presentations (on the average)






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0.93

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Too long


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0

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Too brief


107

99.07

%

About right






Time for discussion of oral papers was






3

2.75

%

Too long


21

19.27

%

Not long enough


85

77.98

%

About right






Number of posters was






39

36.11

%

Too many


3

2.78

%

Too few


66

61.11

%

About right






Would you attend another Chapman Conference?






47

43.12

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Definitely


51

46.79

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Probably


11

10.09

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Perhaps


0

0

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No






Would you attend another Chapman Conference on this topic?






66

61.11

%

Definitely


28

25.93

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Probably


13

12.04

%

Perhaps


1

0.93

%

No



The full survey results are available here



Local organizing committee:
Ricardo Garcia, email rgarcia@6000aire.fis.ucm.es
Luis Gimeno, email l.gimeno@uvigo.es



The full text proposal which is also a nice summary about the NAO is here check for updates: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/NAO